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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
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NEW OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANKAL PERIODICALS 
FOR DECEMBER AND JANUARY. 
Angras'cum pellu'cidum. “ The flowers of this very beautiful little plant are as delicate and 
transparent as if they were flakes of snow fixed by frost in the very act of melting. Each part of 
the lip is studded and bordered with little crystalline elevations, and the whole fabric of the 
blossom is as fragile as thin plates of glass. It was imported from Sierra Leone by Messrs. 
Loddiges, with whom it flowered in November, 1842.” Dr. Lindley states, that a comparison 
of this plant with A. gladiifolium, will show that the Genus Angr cecum cannot be maintained 
entire, and will therefore have to be revised. It is a genuine epiphytal plant, with no real stems, 
large opposite leaves which sheath each other at the base, and bearing long, half-drooping 
racemes of flowers from the axils of the leaves. It is well fitted for growing on a log of wood. 
Bot. Reg. 2. 
Bossi.e'a paucifo'lia. “ This New Holland bush, which has been raised several times from 
Swan River seeds, is one of those plants whose appearance depends chiefly upon the way in which 
it is managed. Under ordinary circumstances, it is a straggling, naked, inelegant species ; but 
when kept dwarf, and in very good health, it forms a pretty compact bush, gaily sprinkled with 
yellow’ and crimson blossoms. It was originally raised from seeds by Robert Mangles, Esq., of 
Sunning Hill ; and in July, 1841, it was named and defined by Mr. Bentham. Afterwards it was 
figured in the Botanical Magazine, under the name of B. virgata. The drawing was taken from 
a plant in the possession of Messrs. Low and Co., of Clapton, in April last. It is a greenhouse 
shrub, and will best succeed if potted in rough peat mixed with a little loam and sand. When 
potted, the stem should never be immersed in the soil, but rather a little elevated, which will 
preserve the plant from damping off in winter. In summer an ample supply of water should be 
given, and air at all times. In winter it should be exposed as much as possible to the light, and 
always receive air when the weather will permit. Fire-heat should never be applied, except to 
keep off frost. It may be propagated from seeds or cuttings.” Bot. Reg. 63. 
Ca'ltha sagitta'ta. “ First discovered by Sir J. Banks and Dr. Solander, in Success Bay, 
Terra del Fuego, in 1769 ; again found at Port Egmont, W. Falkland Island, by Ludovic Nee, who 
accompanied the Spanish navigator, Malaspinas, in his voyage to South America ; and more lately 
gathered in the Falklands by Gaudichaud, after the wreck of Capt. Freycinet’s ship “ L’Uranie,” 
and by Capt. D’Urville, in the voyage of La Coquille. The specimens from which the figure was 
made, were collected in Hermit’s Isle, Cape Horn, w’here it first attracted the attention of Capt. 
Ross, the commander of the Antarctic expedition, and was afterwards gathered abundantly both 
there and in the Falkland Islands by the other officers. The roots from the former locality were 
sent home by the botanist of the expedition from the Falkland Islands, where they had been 
flowering in November, 1842 ; and they again bloomed in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, in 
the months of August and September. It is rather as a botanical curiosity than as an orna- 
mental plant, that this species is here introduced. It is cultivated in moist bog-earth.” It has 
sagittate leaves, and dull greenish-yellow flowers, being by no means so beautiful as the British 
C.palustris. Bot. Mag. 4056. 
Cirrhope'talum aura'tum. Among the singular species of this genus, the present is one of 
the most interesting. It hangs down from the branch of a tree, or a piece of charred wood, 
which it soon overruns with its delicate green roots and egg-shaped, furrowed pseudo-bulbs. The 
leaves are very thick, deep-green above, and convex ; stained with purple beneath. The flower- 
stem is as slender as a small thread, and too weak to bear the umbels of flowers, which therefore 
hang down gracefully, and are balanced in the air. The umbels, as in many others of the genus, 
are so arranged that the flowers are all on one plane, and diverging equally from the centre form 
a circle, whose interior is occupied by the lower part of the flowers, and whose circumference is 
formed by the long, flat, strap-shaped lateral sepals which look like so many party-coloured 
ribbons collected into a balloon. The flowers themselves have a yellowish ground, striped and 
mottled with crimson. The upper sepal and two petals are fringed with golden hairs, and 
